Friday, June 10, 2011

My Study on: What God says about WHATEVER you do and Laziness

Overview:
Being lazy is going against God. It’s that simple. What is being lazy, slothful, and idle to God? Not working hard, with all your abilities for you, your family, and God. We all want or need something, the difference is those who work hard to get them and those who are lazy and come up with lame excuses why they can’t. But not only is being lazy bad for you but also for people around you that you are not able to help on behalf of God. IN ALL THINGS we can be lazy. So, whatever we do, don’t be lazy and make God proud. In the end, the efforts of your work reflect where your heart is if you want to test your faith. But God already knows. Do you?Being Lazy:
1You may “want” to do something but “wants” don’t do anything for you unless you ACT. 7We all “want” to get things done but not actually ACTING on our “want” will do nothing for us. 11Giving yourself excuses NOT do work hard is only wise in your “sleeping” mind but are NOT valid excuses to God and to those who DO work hard.

What laziness does:
4Being lazy and doing things halfway fails and doesn’t get you very far but working hard and being persistent will bring you what you want and need. 2You have to EARN what you get. Freeloading is not respectable. 5Not being able to be responsible for yourself and family is the same as not being responsible TO GOD. 6Procastiation does not benefit the future and help in progress but leads to failure. 8Being lazy grows in us and takes over and cause only bad things. 17Being lazy, idle, and procrastinating isn’t just a bad thing for you, but a bad thing for people around you.

Not an option:
14BE DOERS. This is a verb, an action, and is not passive or idle.

Work for yourself:
9”Do your BEST”; work hard, and get what you need with all your ability so that you become an example before God. 12”EARN” your living. Work hard “quietly” FOR GOD and do not be idle. 13Whatever you do, work hard at it “with all your might”.

Work for God:
3Work hard WHATEVER it is, and do it for GOD, not just yourself nor for anyone else. 16WHATEVER you do, do it for God AND THANK HIM for the work and its benefits. 19Trust God in and through your works, acknowledge his hand in everything you do, and he will make your works be beneficial.

Benefits of your work:
10”DO NOT NEGLECT” to do ‘good’ and hard work is good, so that you can help others and not just yourself and please God. 15Work more than you sleep. Take pride in work and not being idle. Whatever you love, sleep or work, you will reap what you sow. 18Earn what you have so that IF God calls, you can help those in need. BUT GOD loves “a cheerful giver”, not a forced unhappy giver. 20Your heart and genuine faith can be seen through your works. To test yourself, look at your works to measure your true faith.

Cited bible verses.(1) Proverbs 13:4 ESV The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.(2) 2 Thessalonians 3:10 ESV For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.(3) Colossians 3:23 ESV Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,(4) Proverbs 10:4 ESV A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.(5) 1 Timothy 5:8 ESV But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.(6) Proverbs 20:4 ESV The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing.(7) Proverbs 21:25 ESV The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.(8) Proverbs 19:15 ESV Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger.(9) 2 Timothy 2:15 ESV Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.(10) Hebrews 13:16 ESV Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.(11) Proverbs 26:13-16 ESV The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road! There is a lion in the streets!” As a door turns on its hinges, so does a sluggard on his bed. The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; it wears him out to bring it back to his mouth. The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who can answer sensibly.(12) 2 Thessalonians 3:11-12 ESV For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies. Now such persons we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.(13) Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.(14) James 1:22 ESV But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.(15) Proverbs 20:13 ESV Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.(16) Colossians 3:17 ESV And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.(17) Proverbs 10:26 ESV Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.(18) Ephesians 4:28 ESV Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.(19) Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.(20) James 2:18 ESV But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

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